I am officially a crazy lady. To be more specific, I am officially a baby-crazy lady. Everyone said that this would happen, but I didn’t believe them. Maybe it’s that I’d been so overwhelmed by my own little ones that I didn’t have time to think about anything else. Or maybe it’s that I wasn’t […]
The Safety Lessons Your Kids Really Need to Know
It’s the middle of the school year, so the assessments are in full swing. How are your kids doing? Are they on track? Are they learning what they’re supposed to be learning? Oh, sure, you’ve had the requisite parent-teacher conferences, but I’m not talking about academics, social skills or the OMG-pay-attention-kid stuff here. No, I’m […]
This Holiday Season, I’m Grateful for Me
Yes, you read that right: I’m grateful for me. I can’t decide if that’s blasphemous or just flat-out weird for a mother to say. I know that I should be writing about how insanely grateful I am for my kids, and I am insanely grateful for them—always. That thought actually consumes me on a daily […]
Parenting Makes You Realize That People Are Annoying AF
Becoming a parent has made me realize how much I hate people. No, not all people. But lots of them. I know, I know. That sounds harsh and completely misanthropic, especially at this time of the year when we’re supposed to be all warm and fuzzy and thankful. And I am thankful—thankful that I have […]
Our Big Kids Still Need Their Mamas
My 5-year-old is a big kid. I mean, he’s only 5, so I know that sounds crazy, but 5 is seeming so grown-up lately. Maybe it’s because he sounds like such a little grown-up when he talks, and he has such big and deep feelings about everything. Or maybe it’s that he’s been learning so […]
15 Ways to Protect Our Kids from Sexual Assault—and Change the World
Parenting is…a lot. The first time you look at your newborn, you realize the magnitude of it. It is wonderful and amazing, and your heart feels like it’s literally going to explode. And shortly thereafter, the terror sets in—terror about everything from worrying whether they’re getting enough milk to whether or not something you do […]
The Hardest Thing About Living in the Suburbs
It’s been two and a half months since I moved to the ’burbs, and it’s been a bit of an adjustment for me. That’s putting it mildly. I cried my eyes out during the first month, wrote a few posts about city life—including one about why New York City is the best place to raise […]
A Big, Fat Kiddie Reminder: You Never Know Until You Ask
Kids: They’re not like us. At all. Oh, sure, they look and sound like funny, little versions of us, but make no mistake about it—they are very, very different. Kids don’t think like us. We marvel at the way that they look at the world in so many ways, but we forget that their unique […]
How to Parent When You Really Don’t Want To
Becoming a mom is the best thing I’ve ever done. It’s wonderful, it’s fulfilling, it’s crazy, it’s fun, it’s made me feel love in a way I never thought possible…and man, sometimes I really need a break. It’s not even that parenting is overwhelming, even though that’s certainly the case some days. And you know […]
Six Days in Suburbia…and OMG, Help!
Six days. It took just six days for me to want to run from the suburbs screaming and head back home to New York City. I stood at my new kitchen counter, my head in my hands, and tried to steady my breathing and not freak out my kids, who were 10 feet away and […]
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